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To: Sonki who wrote (15538)	2/6/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: odd lot	of 74651

Re: so WHO cares about lies and video tapes? The Judge, the industry, the public, and even stockholders do! Microsoft Fights to Recoup After Courtroom Disaster By JASON FRY and TIMOTHY HANRAHAN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION, February 5, 1999 interactive.wsj.com excerpts: Mr. Boies is very, very good at what he does -- but Microsoft has made him even better. The affair with the videotape was simply mind-boggling: Since the test evidently wasn't rigged, why try to pass off different machines as the same one? Did anybody in Redmond bother reviewing at the videotape before sending it off to Washington? Did it occur to anyone in Redmond that the slightest inconsistency in the tape would be seized upon? If it didn't occur to anybody, why on earth didn't it? What, exactly, does Microsoft think is going on in that courtroom in Washington? Microsoft is a software company that generates so much cash it can't figure out what to do with it all. Apparently it's never occurred to it that in the real world, where antitrust proceedings are taken seriously, companies can exchange money for competent legal help. They can hire lawyers who suggest that the company's chief executive officer won't help himself with a surly deposition in which he can't remember anything about key strategy memos and argues about the definition of "compete." They can hire lawyers who review the writings of the company's own witnesses so they don't get Pearl-Harbored with their own work. And they can hire lawyers who count the icons on the desktop before the other side does. How can the MSFT people in charge of this trial make so many blunders?

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